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by sev 17y ago
I wish this were possible everywhere. Most of my final exams were worth somewhere between 30-50%. Taking this will only guarantee a maximum of failing the class.
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by sev 17y ago
GoDaddy store your passwords in clear-text and may try to SSH to your VPS without permission That's the title of the post. without permission -- what you're saying could be true; however, permission is granted in that case.
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by sev 17y ago
They store all the passwords encrypted (not one-way hashed which is the recommended), and they can only be retrieved and reversed after a member of the security team opens a ticket and explains the reason for using the password (like to in
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by sev 17y ago
How do you know Zappos is great? When it has become an alternative to having sex with your girlfriend.
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by sev 17y ago
The "light" drawing feature impressed me the most. Nice work!
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by sev 17y ago
I'm a semester away from graduating with a computer science degree in the Los Angeles area. I'm looking for any positions available that can be contract based and remotely worked (although I would be willing to come in for any any meetings
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by sev 17y ago
I've ran into the general public way too much to be surprised by such queries.
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by sev 17y ago
An interesting way to deal with cross-browser compatibility issues.
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by sev 17y ago
Google's acquisition of DocVerse is starting to make more and more sense.
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by sev 17y ago
Like, such as, like, Miss Teen USA South Carolina, such as. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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by sev 17y ago
Along similar lines as the article, I've always thought about how we can be more efficient when speaking. If you notice, there is a tendency to be more and more efficient on the web, with abbreviations/acronyms. Imagine a world where we s
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by sev 17y ago
Unfortunately that's not a way of 'knowing' a site stores passwords in the clear or not. They can send you a new password and still store them in plaintext.
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by sev 17y ago
Ok, You Convinced Me. I've started using zsh on my Mac. Thank you in advance for saving me a whole lot of typing and time.
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by sev 17y ago
And it's already fixed. Interesting to see the bug. https://review.source.android.com/#patch,sidebyside,12807,1,...
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by sev 17y ago
It's scary how symmetric everything get's as N approaches one extreme or another.
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by sev 17y ago
Solving the problem of P=NP? implies that you would also be able to write an algorithm for such a task that currently we don't know the answer to (whether a task can be completed in polynomial time, just as it can be verified) -- once this
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by sev 17y ago
Exactly. I could upvote a lot of submissions that I'm thankful was posted here and discussed. Doesn't mean they're my favorite topics that I want to go back to at another time and re-read. Those would be my "saved" collection a.k.a "favo
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Ask HN: Favorites on HN?
5 points by sev 17y ago|5 comments
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by sev 17y ago
I can see why the change is for the better: my vote (-1, 0, 1) should not be skewed/altered based on past events (others voting). Also, an "appropriate" total vote count is not something that an individual should be determining; it should
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by sev 17y ago
This man's presence was earth-shattering. His legend will be even more so. The world has a lot to learn from him. RIP
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by sev 17y ago
I have understood A use case of hacker news: Learning poetry.
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by sev 17y ago
which IRC channels would you recommend?
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Ask HN: Independent Web Developer, Seeking to Establish Working Relationships
4 points by sev 17y ago|4 comments
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by sev 17y ago
If you read the replies on the screenshot, you notice the OP's sister posts a message (granted, we don't know if it's for sure the OP's sister, but it is implied). The interesting part is that the last name of the "sister" is not blurred,
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by sev 17y ago
Sandbox version: Results 1 - 10 of about 751,000,000 for sex [definition]. (0.11 seconds) Regular version: Results 1 - 10 of about 104,000,000 for sex [definition]. (0.13 seconds) 7 times as many results for the same exact query edit: speed
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by sev 17y ago
"final calculated [weight]" may be a better way to word it to avoid any confusion with the actual mass of the particle, as opposed to the calculation of how gravity at a given moment effects it.
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by sev 17y ago
Not bad at all. I had the same idea and was about to implement it, but you beat me to it. The only suggestion (small one) that I have, is that once you register for the first time, and it suggests you register again for another keyword, t
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by sev 17y ago
>despite their inability to write decent high level >compilers (like, say, natural language coding), or come >up with a methodology which prevents common software >bugs, they think they can reproduce the functions of the &#6
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by sev 17y ago
I don't wish any dose of poverty on anyone. Money is important and necessary, but I think the point was that the will to do a great job (better than required) is unrelated to money, it's to do with how passionate you are about it.
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Launch a Virtual PC In Your Browser Using JPC(www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk)
1 points by sev 17y ago|0 comments

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